About Wendy
Wendy Kesel is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, and career or relationship concerns. Wendy focuses on making the first step feel manageable and supporting steady progress toward clearer goals.
Her approach centers on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about feelings and worries. Sessions emphasize practical ways to cope with daily stress, manage strong emotions, and navigate life changes.
How Wendy works
She also addresses parenting strains, family conflict, and intimacy-related concerns with a straightforward, empathetic style. Wendy draws on several therapeutic tools to match each person’s needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thoughts and from acceptance-based work to clarify values and reduce avoidance.
Skills from emotion-focused and dialectical approaches help with intense feelings and relationship patterns. People working with Wendy can expect calm, direct conversation and concrete strategies to try between sessions. She supports clients coping with grief, trauma, ADHD-related challenges, body image and caregiver stress.
She also helps those dealing with commitment, control, or communication problems. Sessions are offered in English and can include a mix of conversation and practical exercises. Wendy aims to help people find clearer direction, build coping skills, and make changes that fit their daily lives.
Wendy lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Wendy works with
The areas below are the ones Wendy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for coping with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by reducing avoidance and increasing meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns from close relationships and how they shape current behavior and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy-related issues and relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Wendy will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with Wendy can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat formats work for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when in-person visits are difficult.
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